"The Link Restaurant Group has made the decision to close its Cochon Butcher Nashville location in order to focus on the growing business at home in New Orleans," said a statement from the group.

For the Nashville location, the Link Restaurant Group partnered with Fresh Hospitality, whose founders started the Jim N Nicks barbecue chain.

Cochon Butcher in Nashville was the second attempt by Link and Stryjewski to expand outside New Orleans. In 2011, the two James Beard Award-winning chefs
opened a second location of Cochon
, their celebrated Cajun and Southern restaurant, in Lafayette. That restaurant closed a little over a year after opening.